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Florida Governor DeSantis’ Head-In-The Sand Climate Change Policies

Legal Planet

Natural gas currently powers approximately 74% of Florida’s total net electricity generation.) Instead, the new legislation commits the state to continued reliance on fossil fuels in the future. The new state laws build on similarly wrong-headed fossil fuel-based policies that Governor DeSantis has embraced in recent years.

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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. electrical grids were increasingly “complex and vulnerable.” [2] Shellenberger. 5] The U.S.

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Guest Commentary: Czech Republic-Poland’s dispute over the Turów mine

Law Columbia

The plant generates electricity for about three million Polish households, which amounts to around 7% of the country’s output. The catalyst for the dispute was the Polish authorities’ concession extension to operate the mine until 2026 without carrying out an environmental impact assessment (EIA) as required by European Union (EU) law.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Precautionary Principle : Often a hot topic and subject to furious debate, this international standard promotes the concept through The Rio Declaration that to protect an environment, a precautionary approach must be applied according to their capability. Sponsored Content.

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Balancing Environmental Protection with Economic Development: The Greenland Mining Dilemma

Vermont Law

Economic costs notwithstanding, the precautionary principle applied in cases like Pfizer Animal Health v. The principle is that uncertainty in scientific evidence does not justify a delay in measures to protect the environment. Council of the European Union(2002) undergirds Greenlands ban on uranium mining.

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There are Piles of Coal in America’s Christmas Stocking

Legal Planet

Bad children, supposedly, will get only lumps of coal in their stockings. That could be taken as a metaphor for the anti-environmental programs coming down the line, but I have in mind something a bit less metaphorical.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

It was reported in January that a developer had filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court challenging the City of Santa Rosa’s law requiring appliances in new homes of three stories or less to use electricity rather than natural gas. The developer previously filed a lawsuit challenging a natural gas ban in the Town of Windsor.

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